Jennifer and Eric Mauchan live in a Cape Cod-style house in Framingham, Massachusetts that they’ve been cooling with five air conditioners. In the summer, the electric bill for the 2,600-square-foot home can be $200. In the winter, heating with natural gas is often more than $300 a month, even with the temperature set at 65 […]
Full Nelson NASA’s administrator is once again making outrageous claims about China’s space capabilities — and in the process, fueling the off-world rivalry between the two. “We believe that a lot of [China’s] so-called civilian space program is a military program,” Administrator Bill Nelson said during remarks on Capitol Hill this week, per The Guardian. […]
In 1932, the United States Public Health Service launched a study with the Tuskegee Institute to “record the natural history of syphilis.” The study started with 600 Black men, 399 who were confirmed to have syphilis, 201 who did not (the control group), and not one of them gave their informed consent. Researchers on the […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — April’s total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes — and cosmic chance. The moon will be extra close to Earth, providing a long and intense period of darkness, and the sun should be more active with the potential for dramatic bursts of […]
The “Great North American Solar Eclipse” is fast approaching and University of North Florida science students are preparing to do some very important experiments with a high-altitude balloon. Action News Jax First Alert Chief Meteorologist Mike Buresh first introduced you to the students in August as they were getting ready for an annular eclipse in […]
An upcoming Chinese lunar mission will carry a small ecosystem and other payloads to test using lunar resources later this decade. China’s Chang’e 8 mission is a precursor mission for a moon base, named the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) that the country wants to build with partners in the 2030s. Chang’e 8 will test […]
J. Marion Sims has gone down in history as the “Father of Modern Gynecology.” Many of his medical achievements came at the cost of the health and well-being of enslaved Black women. He performed surgical experiments on enslaved Black women, often without the use of anesthesia. In 2018, after a series of protests, New York […]
Jeff Bezos’ space company successfully launched a rocket carrying experiments on Tuesday, its first flight since engine trouble caused a crash more than a year ago. The New Shepard rocket soared from West Texas, lifting a capsule full of tests, many of which were aboard the failed Blue Origin launch in September 2022. No one […]